Hi Marty I just built a tower out of Radio Shack TV tower - 8 inch face. I used 50 feet of tower with a 15 foot piece of aluminum tubing out the top, and it is a bit on the short side - I figure anot
As other have indicated, not a good idea. One thing I would also add though - 5 db of loss in your cable on the TX side also means 5 db of loss on the RX side as well.... Best to try and get your cab
This is how to match 50 to 75 ohm, and then back again. Single band only http://www.k1ttt.net/technote/matching.html#sixth Tom - VE3CX _______________________________________________ ________________
I have an inverted vee installed on a 48 foot tower - apex is around 45 feet. On another (64 foot) tower, I have 2 half-slopers - one for phone, one for CW. I have found the half-slopers work very we
Take a 1/4 wave length of wire (half an inverted vee), and connect the hot side of the coax to this. Shield from the coax is attached to the tower. Signal is vertically polarized, and may show a smal
I have built several antennas that I thought should work well, and did not. What I like to do is have 2 or 3 antennas, and compare performance over a period of time (ie a winter/contest season). The
Hi Neil They are the same antenna. The 205BA is the older version, and has the screw & clamp style clamps to hold the elements together. They tend to rust and break. The 205CA has stainless hoseclamp
Along the same lines: A friend installed a self-supporting tower in his back yard - concrete base went down 4 feet. A few years later, his power went out. Everyone else in the neighbourhood was fine.
Think of a Rohn BX tower - same thing. If the tower is taken down/removed, only the stubs stick out of the concrete, and get left behind. Its a taper tower. By purchasing new legs, the tower can be i